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Ep. 111: How Do I Tame Distracting Thoughts?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
How to Become a High School Superstart
High school students do things that are not easy for you to simulate in your brain. It can actually be much easier to get to a place where you generate the failed simulation effect than it is when what you've done is just objectively competitively very hard. J k, typically my perspective on getting started writing this type of pragmatic non fiction,. whether we're talking about a blog or doing a podcast or trying to get a book deal, is that you need, you need a compelling philosophy, or take on a topic dis interesting to a non trivial number people and you need to be the right person to be writing about it.
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